Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell, 1948

    A novel by George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a totalitarian society of the future, ruled by an omnipotent dictator called Big Brother. In this society, called Oceania, people's thoughts are controlled as tightly as their actions. The government maintains an organization called the “thought police” and engages in constant propaganda. (See also Big Brother is watching you.)

    Orwell coined the term doublespeak to describe one kind of propaganda practiced by the state in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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ELECTRONIC EDITIONS WARNING: Nineteen Eighty-Four will NOT enter the public domain in the United States of America until 2044 and in the European Union until 2020, although it is public domain in countries such as Canada, Russia, and Australia. (A list of free downloads appears under the external links section below.)

The following free online or downloadable editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four are available:

• (English)
• (French translation)
• (Russian translation)
• (Estonian translation)
• (Searchable etext)
• (Searchable online edition)
• (With publication data)
• (Project Gutenburg Australia e-text)

Other links:

• Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS)
• George Orwell Web Ring
• Orwelltoday.com — Comparing the world George Orwell described in "1984" with the world we are living in today
• Sinfest has several strips which are allusions to 1984; for instance, [7]
• An article on Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Big Brother Awards
• Privacy International
• The 1984 Index, which tracks the degree to which present conditions mirror those of the novel
• Flag-Burning: a Detriment to the Oceanian Way, a satire by Alexander S. Peak
• The Complete Newspeak Dictionary (newspeakdictionary.com)

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